A French Nazi-hunter called on Syria to allow investigators to search for a Nazi war criminal believed to be living there. Serge Klarsfeld was quoted by the Reuter news agency as saying that he and his wife had unsuccessfully tried to enter Syria four times to look for Alois Brunner. Brunner is accused of deporting tens of thousands of Jews from Austria, Greece, France and Czechoslovakia during World War II.
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